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Home Buyers' Turn - Offs Revealed!
I was  reading the newspaper from home this morning (UK) and on the bottom of page 15 was a little tiny article about what UK home buyers dont like to see when hunting for the perfect property.
 
Here is the list:
Scruffy houses next door
Smell of dogs
Dirty Bathrooms
Weird Odours
Net Curtains
Solar Panels
Trampoline in the yard
Mirrored closet doors
 Botched DIY jobs
Cracked or peeling paint
Overgrown yards
 
 
What blew me away was the claim that 10% of people would refuse to make an offer on a home if the beds were unmade!
Only goes to show that FIRST IMPRESSIONS are so important!  Buying a home is the biggest purchase people are ever likely to make, so in the buyers eyes it needs to be PERFECT!
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